Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Miamisburg, OH

Miamisburg is a city in southern Montgomery County, Ohio, and it is the only city in the world with the name Miamisburg.

Miamisburg began around 1797 as 'Hole's Station,' a stockade settlement built by Zachariah Hole, who brought his family north from Virginia to the west bank of the Great Miami River.

On February 20, 1818, four men from Pennsylvania - Emanuel Gebhart, Jacob Kercher, Dr. John Treon and Dr. Peter Treon - offered 90 lots in a new town named Miamisburg for sale at public auction.

Miamisburg's name combines 'Miamis,' for the Miami Native American tribe that lived in the valley, with 'burg,' meaning a borough or town.

Miamisburg was incorporated as a village in 1832 and achieved city status about a century later, and today it is nicknamed the 'Star City.'

Miamisburg had 19,923 residents at the 2020 census, and Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 put it at about 7,656 households, with roughly 2.57 people per household.

The Miami and Erie Canal, completed through Miamisburg in 1829, transformed the young town into a shipping point for the Great Miami Valley's farms and mills.

Miamisburg is home to the Miamisburg Mound, the largest conical burial mound in Ohio and one of the largest in the eastern United States - built by the Adena culture, it stands about 65 feet tall and roughly 877 feet around its base.

The Miamisburg Mound has been a park since 1920, when Charles F. Kettering bought it for preservation, and it was given to the Ohio Historical Society in 1929; today the city manages it as the Miamisburg Mound State Memorial.

Miamisburg's Mound Laboratories, named for the nearby mound and built in 1947, grew out of Manhattan Project work and became one of the first U.S. Atomic Energy Commission facilities, handling secret nuclear work for decades.